Winner of the American Musical Society's Kinkeldey Award Like many other South American Indian communities, the Suy Indians of Mato Grosso, Brazil, devote a great deal of time and energy to making music, especially singing. In paperback for the first time, Anthony Seeger's Why Suy Sing considers the reasons for the importance of music for the Suy--and by extension for other groups-- through an examination of myth telling, speech making, and singing in the initiation ceremony. Based on over twenty-four months of field research and years of musical exchange, Seeger analyzes the different verbal arts and then focuses on details of musical performance. He reveals how Suy singing creates euphoria out of silence, a village community out of a collection of houses, a socialized adult out of a boy, and contributes to the formation of ideas about time, space, and social identity. This new paperback edition features an indispensable CD offering examples of the myth telling, speeches, and singing discussed, as well as a new afterword that describes the continuing use of music by the Suy in their recent conflicts with cattle ranchers and soybean farmers.
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"Anthony Seeger spins out enough of an integrated theoretical and empirical mediation on why Suya sing to set a good portion of traditional ethnomusicology on its ear." Steven Feld Yearbook for Traditional Music
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This is definitely a favorite of mine! A fun, personal narrative of his time among the Suya people, weaving together exciting stories from the field with large, overriding concepts that translate to studying music in any culture. Also includes a fantastic postlude, describing a few subsequent trips/interactions since this work was initially finished. As for the details...I'll let you read them. Fantastic, though!Seeger makes the distinction in this book between an "anthropology of music" and a "musical anthropology," this book fitting in the latter category. A good read whether interested in/involved in Music, Ethnomusicology, OR Anthropology! [i.e. "non-musical" anthropologists need not worry and should also read this]. If nothing else, you should all buy this book to listen to his wife's "Anthropologist's Wife" song/lament - fantastic, and ever so true. My wife and I truly connected with that song as we first heard it while on our first extended time overseas. :)
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